Modern Speed Collection

Monterey 2016
Aug 18-20

About The Collection

As varied as they are numerous, no collection of automobiles on earth rivals the Modern Speed Collection of 11 bespoke automobiles in terms of advanced technology, sheer performance and unequaled rarity. They are among the most powerful road machines on the planet today, and the most exclusive. Their names alone—Bugatti, Alfa, Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren—evoke reveries of otherworldly performance reserved for those whose dreams far exceed the norm. Each is virtually impossible to buy new from the factory, three prerequisites being that the first owner must also be a previous owner of the marque, be invited by the factory to purchase, and be willing to sign a contract barring resale within a specified time period. Each one was therefore custom tailored to the original owner’s specifications, if indeed such personalization was even available. The Modern Speed Collection opens with the McLaren P1, the cutting-edge hybrid hypercar that McLaren itself calls, “the most exciting, capable, technologically advanced and dynamically accomplished super sports car ever made.” Also among the assemblage is the 2008 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, a distinctly modern yet genuinely classic Alfa road car endowed with a Ferrari-Maserati V-8 powerplant and 180 MPH top speed. No such gathering would be complete without at least one of Ferrari’s finest. Here there are two: a 2011 599 GTO, the fastest, most powerful and agile road Ferrari to its time and a worthy inheritor of the GTO designation; and its Spyder counterpart, the 599 GTO SA Aperta, which instantly assumed the mantle of the fastest open-topped road Ferrari in the company’s history. No fewer than six Porsches fill the ranks, including a 911 Speedster, two GT3 coupes, two Brumos/Hurley Haywood special editions (each limited to just five cars) and Zuffenhausen’s glorious technological tour de force, the Carrera GT. And there is no better dream machine to complete this assemblage than the 2006 Bugatti Veyron, which needs no introduction. It’s the car that surpasses almost any superlative one attempts to ascribe to it, a 250-plus MPH scorcher that has been described as “simply too fast for this world.”

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